Word: pennsylvania
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...White House pressroom a telephone jangled disturbingly. Over the wire came a warning voice: "You guys be ready for a hot story at 2 o'clock." Five minutes later newsmen, looking across the White House lawn, observed a strange movement out on Pennsylvania Avenue. They hurried out to find 35 very young men and women and one big Negro marching solemnly up and down under the leafless trees. Behind them flocked a curious crowd. With difficulty their youthful hands held aloft heavy placards...
...days later, armed with his appointment credentials from Governor Fisher, rotund, rosy-cheeked Mr. Grundy smilingly entered the Senate chamber with Pennsylvania's Senator Reed to take the oath of office. By mistake he sat in the seat of Senator Norris, who was told that he had been himself "unseated." But for three hours Mr. Grundy had to wait while Senators violently abused him and Governor Fisher. With hands folded in his lap and a bland smile on his round face, he listened placidly to a torrential flow of senatorial invective. He heard himself called a "corrupt lobbyist," his appointment...
...forming a very consequential portion of their industry, definitely announced a price raise, effective Jan. 1, from $55 to $60. The next U. S. move was a meeting of the representatives of more than 300 U. S. and Canadian newspapers called early last week in Manhattan's Hotel Pennsylvania. Three basic suggestions emerged. The most direct was that legal action be used against the Canadian pulpsters...
Died. William Walton Griest, 70. Pennsylvania Representative since 1909; at Mount Clemens, Mich.; of arthritis and pneumonia. Chairman of the House Committee on Post Offices & Post Roads, he advocated lower second-class mail rates 1? postcard rate, increased pay for postal employes...
...Duck-shooting members of the federal government include Secretary of State Stimson, Attorney-General Mitchell, Senators Robinson of Arkansas, Shipstead of Minnesota, Reed of Pennsylvania. No duck hogs they...